Bulia
Thanks for responding
I take your point about distinguishing "editing" from "viewing". I was ignorant of the existance of inkview.
To quote my original mail
My purposes are not the rendering of HTML but rather the invocation of a program. Does inkscape support this and how.
My original post was grasping at a solution for my posted Feature Request "1070754 - Maintaining Attributes in Users Namespace". In essence, the request was for some capability that allowed for the maintenance of the attributes of a shape that are defined in the namespace of the user (e.g if a line represented a road then I would like to define the name of that road).
From the perspective of the users of the application that I'm developing, this activity is part of the process of "svg creation" not of "svg use" (by which I mean, analogously, "editing" not "viewing").
I had chosen a misleading example. 8^(
Any thoughts ?
Endre
-----Original Message----- From: bulia byak [mailto:buliabyak@...400...] Sent: Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:26 AM To: NAGY Endre Cc: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] SVG Linking
When invoking the example in InternetExplorer, the affect of clicking on the ellipse is to bring up W3's web page. I have not found a way of achieving this in inkscape.
What, Inkscape did not show you the web page?! :)
Seriously, it would be nice to run a browser by clicking a link. In theory. In practice, Inkscape is not so much of a "user agent" as it is an SVG creating application. In particular, following link on click will badly get in the way of editing. Clicking something in Inkscape has lots of editing functions. So, while we can create links, I think we can be excused for not following them.
This of course applies to inkscape proper. For inkview, following links by calling a browser is a must. I think we already have an RFE on that; search in the tracker and add your comments. IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment to it are intended only to be read or used by the named addressee. It is confidential and may contain legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistaken transmission to you. The RTA is not responsible for any unauthorised alterations to this e-mail or attachment to it. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, and are not necessarily the views of the RTA. If you receive this e-mail in error, please immediately delete it from your system and notify the sender. You must not disclose, copy or use any part of this e-mail if you are not the intended recipient.
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, NAGY Endre wrote:
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:40:05 +1100 From: NAGY Endre <Endre_NAGY@...561...> To: bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> Cc: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Inkscape-devel] SVG Linking
Bulia
Thanks for responding
I take your point about distinguishing "editing" from "viewing". I was ignorant of the existance of inkview.
To quote my original mail
My purposes are not the rendering of HTML but rather the invocation of a program. Does inkscape support this and how.
My original post was
grasping at a solution for my posted Feature
Request "1070754 - Maintaining Attributes in Users Namespace". In essence, the request was for some capability that allowed for the maintenance of the attributes of a shape that are defined in the namespace of the user (e.g if a line represented a road then I would like to define the name of that road).
Why do I get the sneaking suspicion that you are using Inkscape for diagramming and want to be able to add arbitrary name value pairs to objects rather than using any namespaces in particularly?
HTML was very clever in simple the way it did meta data tags, basically it provided a single tag and two attributes and from there users could create as many of their own name (Author) value (authorname) pairs as they would like by specifying new values for content and name everytime.
<meta content="Author" name="authorname"> <meta content="desc" name="description">
(Dia users have been asking for the ability to tag objects with all kinds of information for ever and that has only confirmed my belief in the need for a meta data system that would be simple and extensible at the user level rather than requiring an extended predefined schema).
You can see OpenOffice.org offers a similar ability to have an unending set of name value pairs
http://books.evc-cit.info/ch02.php#meta-xml-section this screenshot shows it reasonably well the numbered labels are the names and the text entries are the corresponding values, and the popup shows they are arbitrary pairs. http://books.evc-cit.info/figures/ooo.ess.0203.png
Let me use this opportunity to say that I hope parts of the Oasis standardized namespaces could be reused by Inkscape rather than creating more things in the inkscape: namespace. I hope to do more reading soon and recommend what custom tags and markup that it migth make sense to drop in favour of an open and standardised namespace shared by a variety of other applications.
From the perspective of the users of the application that I'm developing, this activity is part of the process of "svg creation" not of "svg use" (by which I mean, analogously, "editing" not "viewing").
Even if my guessing is way off a better less evasive description of what you are actually trying to do, the specific end result you are trying to achieve will better enable the developers to help you than specific example problems. If you are really lucky it might even allow them to indirectly help you by doing things they were planning on doing anyway at some point.
Any thoughts ?
Endre
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
Free SVG Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Dia is for Diagrams http://gnome.org/projects/dia/ Inkscape, Draw Freely http://inkscape.org Abiword is Awesome http://abisource.com
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